Alex Segura's Blog, page 8
November 5, 2018
Entertainment Weekly on MIAMI MIDNIGHT
Entertainment Weekly debuted the cover to the fifth Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery, MIAMI MIDNIGHT. The story includes a short interview with Alex and an excerpt from the book.
June 26, 2018
CrimeReads: Detective Fiction for a Modern Miami
At CrimeReads, Steph Cha interviews Alex…
I don’t think Alex Segura and I have ever been in the same place at the same time. Otherwise surely we would have been placed on a panel together, a lazy diversity panel at the very least. Our series share tons of similarities, both at the surface and deep in the construction. His PI is a Cuban-American dude in Miami; mine is a Korean-American woman in Los Angeles. We trade in noir, and grapple with both the weight and the silliness of that tradition.
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June 20, 2018
“Unusual suspects: the writers diversifying detective fiction”
But as the world has become steadily more globalised, 21st-century detective fiction has become more multinational as well, with writers such as Alex Segura drawing on their own heritages and experiences to diversify the genre.
June 6, 2018
BLACKOUT Recommended by the Boston Globe
BLACKOUT is included in the summer reading list, “Hot Books for Cool Days”
May 30, 2018
Hollywood Reporter on New Scripted Crime Podcast
Radio giant iHeartMedia is entering the scripted podcasting space with a new teen crime series that has comic book roots.
The media company has teamed up with Einhorn’s Epic Productions to develop Lethal Lit, a six-episode mystery podcast series.
Lethal Lit was co-created by EEP CEO Heather Einhorn and CCO Adam Staffaroni. Archie Comics co-president Alex Segura, who writes the comics The Archies and Archie Meets the Ramones, will pen the show along with fellow comic book writer Monica Gallagher.
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May 25, 2018
TV Insider: Dads & Grads Gift Guide
Mmmm, feel those May-June gift-giving vibes? That’s right, it’s time to celebrate the grads, dads and single moms doing the work of two parents.
May 22, 2018
Miami New Times: Five Best Miami Crime Movies, According Alex
When Pete Fernandez returns to South Florida to hunt down the missing son of a rising politician — and eventually to unravel a cold case tied to a murderous cult — he operates in a very real version of Miami. The fictional detective hangs in Wynwood, eats Cuban food at Islas Canarias, and pokes around cookie-cutter suburbs in Southwest Miami-Dade.
May 21, 2018
The New Tropic: Interview
Miami has no shortage of the bizarre, seedy, and dark – which is why Miami-born writer Alex Segura thought it would be the perfect setting for his noir crime fiction series about Pete Fernandez, a struggling journalist who wanders back to his hometown of Miami and into a career as a private investigator.
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May 18, 2018
May 16, 2018
MysteryPeople Interview
In Blackout, Alex Segura’s latest book to feature Pete Fernandez has the PI operating in New York, but brought back to his Miami home to find the missing son of a business man politician, mainly because he resembles a young man who went missing when he was last seen with Pete’s high school crush before she was murdered
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